Published Works

Books

Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World

New Haven: Yale University Press. 2018

Authored

Mobile Interface Theory — book cover (2nd edition)

Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media

New York: Routledge. 2012 (2nd ed., 2021)

Authored

The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies

New York: Routledge. 2014 (Editor)

Edited

Foundations of Mobile Media Studies — book cover

Foundations of Mobile Media Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field

New York: Routledge. 2016 (Editor)

Edited

Essays & Op-Eds

How to Wait Well

Aeon / Psyche Magazine, September 30 2020

Essay

Getting Bored Could Be the Most Productive Thing You Do Today

Management Today, July 31, 2019

Op-Ed

The Forgotten Kaleidoscope Craze in Victorian England

Atlas Obscura, Nov. 9, 2015

Essay

The Myth of the Disconnected Life

The Atlantic, Feb. 7, 2012

Essay

The Waiting Game

Monocle, April 24, 2024

Essay

Fidget Spinners: How Buffering Icons Shape Our Sense of Time

Real Life Magazine, June 28, 2017

Essay

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Parisi, David & Jason Farman — “The Time of Touch: Efficiency and Delay in Haptic Communication”

Convergence 25.1 (2019): 40–59.

Journal Article

“Invisible and Instantaneous: Geographies of Media Infrastructure from Pneumatic Tubes to Fiber Optics”

Media Theory 2.1 (2018): 1–22.

Journal Article

“Repair and Software: Updates, Obsolescence, and Mobile Culture’s Operating Systems”

Continent 6.1 (2017): 20–24.

Journal Article

“Surveillance from the Middle: On Interception, Infrastructure, and the Material Flows of Asynchronous Communication”

Media Fields 11.1 (2016).

Journal Article

“Objects as Audience: Phenomenologies of Vibrant Virtuality in GPS Art”

Leonardo Electronic Almanac 21.1 (2016): 196–209.

Journal Article

“Stories, Spaces, and Bodies: The Production of Embodied Space Through Mobile Media Storytelling”

Communication Research and Practice 1.2 (2015): 101–116.

Journal Article

“Infrastructures of Mobile Social Media”

Social Media + Society 1.1 (2015).

Journal Article

“Creative Misuse as Resistance: Surveillance, Mobile Technologies, and Locative Games”

Surveillance & Society 12.3 (2014): 377–388.

Journal Article

“Mobile Media Performances as Asynchronous Embodiment”

International Journal of Screendance 2.1 (2011): 48–51.

Journal Article

“Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography”

New Media & Society 12.6 (2010): 869–888.

Journal Article

“Hypermediating the Game Interface: The Alienation Effect in Violent Videogames and the Problem of Serious Play”

Communication Quarterly 58.1 (2010): 96–109.

Journal Article

“Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group’s Flicker and the Screened Body in Performance”

Contemporary Theatre Review 19.2 (2009): 181–194.

Journal Article

Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology 3.1 (2007).

Journal Article

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

“Spatial Practices of the Second Offline”

In The Second Offline: The Doubling of Time and Place. Springer, 2021: 209–226.

Book Chapter

“Mobile Media Stories and the Process of Designing Contested Landscapes”

In Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections. Routledge, 2018: 188–202.

Book Chapter

“When Geolocation Meets Visualization”

In Augmented Reality: Innovative Perspectives across Art, Industry, and Academia. Parlor Press, 2017: 177–199.

Book Chapter

“Location-based media”

In Dialogues on Mobile Communication. Routledge, 2016: 139–155.

Book Chapter

“The Materiality of Locative Media: On the Invisible Infrastructure of Mobile Networks”

In Theories of the Mobile Internet. Routledge, 2015: 45–59.

Book Chapter

“Map Interfaces and the Production of Locative Media Spaces”

In Locative Media. Routledge, 2015: 83–93.

Book Chapter

“Storytelling and Locative Media: Exploring the Intersection of Site-Specificity, Content, and Materiality”

In Routledge Companion to Mobile Media. Routledge, 2014: 528–537.

Book Chapter

“Locative Media”

In The Handbook of Mobilities. Routledge, 2014: 233–242.

Book Chapter

“Historicizing Mobile Media: Locating Transformations in Embodied Space”

In The Mobile Media Reader. Peter Lang, 2012: 9–22.

Book Chapter

“Information Cartography: Visualizations of Internet Spatiality and Information Flows”

In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment). Utah State University Press, 2012: 85–96.

Book Chapter

“Gertrude Stein in QuickTime: Documenting Performance in the Digital Age”

In Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication. Baywood, 2011: 79–94.

Book Chapter

“The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art”

In TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007: 157–167.

Book Chapter

Safely restoring access requires connecting the physical ledger to the desktop interface for portfolio synchronization.